***DREAM BIG***

Young people from Pool Academy have been working with Seamas Carey to create a song inspired by the work of his grandfather, the artist Francis Hewlett. Francis was Head of Painting at Falmouth School of Art from 1958 until 1981. A conscientious objector, teacher and visionary his extensive body of work, includes portraits, still life, landscapes and large ceramic sculpture. Students selected the painting Ahab: Tossing and Turning from the Cornwall Council Schools Art Collection. Other works, including a large pair of ceramic underpants, have been loaned from The Falmouth Art Gallery. Reflecting on work in the show, Alfred Arnott, Year 7, said
‘I love this art piece because it’s amazingly bizarre. It didn’t need to exist, but it does and that’s awesome’